u/Economy-Spare-2061

very poor quality, I know -- but best I have. Might even not be in German at all -- could be Latin or Italian. The album in question was compiled in Venice in 1583/4. The minbiature to which this caption relates has, I think, already been deleted by this site's filters, so maybe I can describe it in words? A young woman exposes herself to a young man who is lying down == perhaps even hiding -- behind a tree. The extraordinary aspect of the miniature is a winged fallus [mis-spelled in the hope of evading deletion] standing on the ground between the pair

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I know of one other example of this motif which is simply (and ironically) entitled with a line from the Distichs of Cato: "Fistula dulce canit volucrem cum decipit auceps" [the pipe sings sweetly while the fowler deceives the bird]. This new example I found only today in the newly digitised album of Georg von Olnhausen in the Heidelberg UB. I can see that the page is dated 1612, but -- as ever -- would welcome a reading of the other inscriptions -- I can usually manage to understand the German once transcribed -- it's the reading of the manuscript it that's often beyond me -- as here! Thanks!

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from the recently digitised album amicorum of Georg von Olnhausen now in the Heidelberg UB, dated entries 1610-1615. I imagine this shows some sort of students' drinking revelry -- but if anyone could read the 2 inscriptions for me, please, that might clarify what's going on!

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